EWIL

EUROPEAN WOMEN INTERACTIVE LEARNING

Presentation of the project

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The funding programme

The EWIL project is a Grundtvig Learning Partnership

What is Grundtvig?

What is a learning Partership?

Grundtvig is the EU funding programme focusing on adult education: it does not only include formal teaching institutions, but also cultural organisations, local authorities,companies etc.

A Grundtvig Learning Partnership is a framework for practical co-operation activities between organisations working in the field of adult learning. In a Grundtvig Learning Partnership trainers and learners work together on topics of common interest.

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Background and rationale

The issues at stake: women and ICT

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ASSUMPTIONS FIGURES

Women are under-represented in the ICT sector at all levels

In 2008, 25% of the total number of people employed, worked in the High-tech Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) but only 2.4% were women (Women and ICT status report 2009)

Women 25 – 75 years old use less the internet compared to men

In the age bracket 25 – 54 EU27 women using internet at least once a week are 55%, compared to 61% men.In the age bracket 55 –75 EU27 women using internet at least once a week are 19%, compared to 31% men. (“Women in ICTStatus and the way ahead” – European Commission 2008)

Women use ICT tools for cultural related activities

Women are more interested in experiencing ICT to support their cultural interest. E.g. Women spend more time in reading (17% against 10% of men), watching movies (21% against 12%), going to the theatre (14% against 8%), and going to exhibits (27% against 20%). These trends are strongly mirrored in the Web 2.0. (LLRI in the “Instruction Bookon the use of ICT tools of the EWIL project”)

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Background and rationale

The issues at stake: women and the labour market

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ASSUMPTIONS FIGURES

At EU level women face a disadvantage in finding a job suiting their skills

More women than men go beyond compulsory school and more attain university degrees.

However, the employment rates of women with tertiary education are still lower than those of men (Eurostat, EU Labour Force Survey, quoted in “Women and ICT status report “2009)

It is difficult for women to balance work/career and family life, maintaining their status

In the EU27 in 2010, around 75% of the total number of part time workers (41.3 million) were women (Eurostat Nov. 2011).

Often part time workers choose part time as “the only option” to ensure work–life balance: childcare, elderly care (European foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions 2010)

Nowadays the gender divide is still a problem

In the EU top enterprises, the number of women on executive boards has shown little progress since 2004 (8% -> 8.5%), excepting in Scandinavia (ECWT position paper 2011)

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Background and rationale

The issues at stake: ICT, work and society

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ASSUMPTIONS FIGURES

Computer literacy needs to be increased, since ICT tools are more and more exploited in different fields

E.g. More daily tasks are carried out online, from applying for a job to paying taxes or booking tickets: using the internet has become an integral part of daily life for many Europeans, yet, 150 million - 30% - have never used it (European Commission - A Digital Agenda for Europe, under the “Europe 2020 strategy”)

The ICT sector will increasingly become a driver of economic growth and job creation

Job creation can be stimulated through digital technology with 2.6 new jobs created for each low skilled job IT makesobsolete(e-skills and Jobs: the Copenhagen Declaration)e-Skills shortages will result in an excess demand of 384.000 ICT practitioners in 2015 (e-Skills shortages will result in an excess demand of 384.000 ICT practitioners in 2015)

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EWIL project aims -1

The project general aim:

From these assumptions, the EWIL partnership has identified the need of finding more effective forms of non – formal education directed to women, in order to:

stimulate women’s motivation to learn and raise the quality of education opportunities directed to women in non-formal contexts

with a view to fight women marginalization in society (self – development) and to open up opportunities in the job market (employability) in emerging sectors.

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EWIL project aims -2

The project general aim: more in details

In other words, the EWIL project aims at:

Allowing women to acquire ICT knowledge

Maximize thier ICT knowledge by making them able to exploit it in their own life and at work

Training process

Promote women participation in adult learning: use of contents related to the cultural, social and creative area

Motivation to learning

Exploitation of knowledge

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EWIL partners -1

A well balanced blend of expertise

TRAINING: partners having expertise in training, training methodologies and research, Lifelong

learning

ICT: partners having strong focus on ICT

WOMEN: partners focusing on gender issues

CULTURE: partners providing cultural contents

Almost all partners have experience in more than one of those issues

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EWIL partners - 2

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EWIL partners - 3

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EWIL target group

Working in EDUCATION and SOCIAL sectors

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WOMEN

Who are MORE THAN 35 years old

Being PRECARIOUS/PART TIME workers or UNEMPLOYED

Note! less women than men use ICT tools and the difference increases with age

Note! The % of women in these sector is traditionally higer that the % of men (see e.g. EC communication Towards a job-rich recovery – 2012)

Note! they are groups having motivation to improve their situation and, mostly, time to do so

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EWIL APPROACH - PHASE 1

PHASE 1: LEARNERS' NEEDS DEFINITION

- Joint refinement of the target group features

- Exploration of supporting ICT tools

- EWIL survey design and implementation to identifiy learners’ needs

- Collection and analysis of the questionnaire main findings

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Main Outputs: Report of the second project meeting

Presentations, visits “on the field”

Online survey

Report on the survey results

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EWIL APPROACH - PHASE 2

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Main outputs: Methodological guidelines on the ICT - based tools and methods

Report “EWIL – European Women Interactive Learning Cultural Content”

Training Approach Description

PHASE 2: DESIGN OF THE TRAINING APPROACH AND OF THE PRACTICAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

- Based on the survey results, identification of the preferred methods, ICT tools and contents to be proposed for the practical learning experience

- Systematization of these elements and highlighting of their connections into a structured training approach

- Within this framework, proposal and description of the “practical learning experience” to be tested

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EWIL APPROACH - PHASE 3

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Main outputs: Learning experience workshop

Learning experience questionnaire

PHASE 3: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRACTICAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

- Organization of a workshop to test the practical learning experience on a small group of learners

- Submission of a questionnaire to the testers, to collect their feedback on the results of the experience

- Further joint assessment and discussion with the testers

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EWIL APPROACH - PHASE 4

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Main outputs: Newsletters

Project website

PHASE 4: DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

- Creation and content management of the EWIL project website: www.ewil.eu

- Preparation of the project newsletters

- Organisation of dissemination events

- Further dissemination of information on the project background within the partners networks (through meetings, mailing etc.)

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held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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